"Hello, welcome to Guns and Ammo Garage. Have you shot a gun before?"
Brother answers: "No"
"Perhaps you should start with a hand gun."
"No thanks...I'll take a M1 and an M-16 thank you very much!"
So for my bachelor party we went to the garage to shoot some crazy weapons. The only thing that was missing was a musket with a bayonet.
As a first timer I decided not to follow my brothers' love for an old WWII gun and went with the SWAT package which has MP5, M4 and a Glock 9mm. My friends picked guns rather than packages and extra magazines.
Observing the place while waiting, this place can get really busy. Looking behind the bullet proof window you can see other people shooting. I'm only hoping that I don't look foolish since I've never shot a gun before.
The teacher took us to a quite room and told us about safety. Stay behind the yellow line and if you have questions place the gun down and ask. After that, we walked into the range and it reeked of gun powder and people shouting. The stall was already set up with all our guns. My brother was first and he shot the M-1 which was really powerful to the point where we all jumped up. My brother turns around and says "Wow that kicked ass!"
I eventually got to my SWAT package and shot the Glock and the M4 without any problems. I jammed the MP5 probably a good 5 times. They greased it and I still jammed it.
"Obviously operator error." The teacher jokes.
I finally was able to finish the last magazine without it jamming up. At the end I didn't feel as bad as I took my sweet ass time with my package.
When it was done we got back into the bus that originally picked us up from the Tropicana. The driver asked if we needed to go anywhere and one of my friends who forgot to get money the night before we left wanted to go to B Of A. So he actually took us there. Imagine in a bank parking lot with a truck that has guns and ammo covering the bus...hopefully nobody think we were robbing the bank.
Overall this experience was really fun. It makes me want to get a gun now and shoot a stuffed animal. I wished instead of paper targets we would get maybe a watermelon but it was in a garage, so I'm not going to complain. I would come back again. I don't like the fact that they try to push you to finish the rounds up quickly. I understand they have more appointments coming in, but what ever, just jam the gun up and it makes your money worth while.